About the picture above: This mural, which is in the U.S. Capitol building, illustrates many of the values and principles that I hold dear. In the first panel, we have the desire to succeed through a combination of hard work and self-education. In the middle panel, you see the development of our Constitution by men of diverse backgrounds who put their principles before their own self-interests in order to give us our Republic. In the final panel, you see the desire of the colonists to be free from unreasonable search and seizures by the government. These values and these desires should be no different today than they were in the early days of our Nation. It is on these principles and for these reasons that I choose to offer myself to serve as your Congressman.

My name is Chuck Meyer, and I'm committed to fight to take back our government and return it to the Constitutional Republic it is meant to be. I will act on principle, not politics, and seek citizen-oriented solutions, not sound-bites. The only special interests I will represent are the Texans who live, work and pray in our communities, as well as our veterans, who have sacrificed much for us all, and those businesses -- small, medium and large -- that choose to invest in our communities and employ our citizens. At all times, I will act with the utmost integrity, and I commit that I will actively seek out your ideas as to how we best rein in a bloated out-of-control regulatory state that is forfeiting the future of not only our children and grandchildren, but the generations of citizens that are yet unborn. If you share my vision for a Constitutionally-limited government that is focused on the future without forgetting the past, I urge you to support my campaign and help make it happen! Together, we can make a difference -- for our families, our communities, and for the future of We the People. May God bless each of you, and may God bless this greatest nation ever to grace the face of Earth.

About Chuck

Chuck Meyer is an Assistant District Attorney for Hardin County, Texas (part-time) for Appeals and Writs. He is also a Registered Patent Attorney and a Partner with the national law firm of FisherBroyles, LLP, a “Law Firm 2.0®” law firm. He has represented a number of small businesses in Lumberton and throughout the Congressional District, many on a pro bono basis. When Chuck is not on the campaign trail, he spends most of his time in Lumberton, Texas, and is a frequent commentator on governance matters. He has a slew of ideas on how to reform Congress. In 2013, the Lone Star Republicans elected him as their first President. He is the former Chief Legal Officer of Research In Motion (now BlackBerry®) and also served on the business side of that technology firm as the Vice President, Europe for several years in England. He is a member of the Federal Relations subcommittee of the Greater Houston Partnership and is an active member of several community, professional and political organizations, including the Hardin County Rotary Club, the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce (as an Ambassador), the Houston Maritime Arbitration Association, the Houston International Arbitrators Club, the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). He is a former visiting assistant professor of intellectual property law at the University of Houston Law Center and at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Chuck began his professional career as an electronics engineer with the Department of Defense in the Pentagon. After a few years, he transferred to the US Patent and Trademark Office to become a patent examiner in the software-implemented inventions unit. While a patent examiner, Chuck put himself through law school at night at the American University’s Washington College of Law. After graduation, Chuck became a judicial law clerk for a Reagan-appointed United States District Court Judge in Honolulu, Hawaii. Two years later, Chuck was appointed as a judicial law clerk to a Republican Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court. In 2005, he earned a graduate degree in law from the University of Oxford, having earlier obtained a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an M.S. degree in Operations Research from George Washington University and a JD degree from the Washington College of Law of the American University. He has had a varied and successful career as an engineer, a patent examiner, a judicial law clerk, a lawyer in both private practice and in-house with two corporations (Compaq and RIM), a business leader in a publicly-traded company, and more recently as a Registered Patent Attorney and Partner with a national entrepreneurial law firm, FisherBroyles, LLP, and as a part-time Assistant District Attorney for Hardin County. Chuck has been married for over thirty years to Monika Voigt Meyer, and is the proud father of three daughters -- Kathryn (21), Emily (18) and Laura (15). His Christian faith -- the faith of his fathers -- is Roman Catholic.